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Kelsey Lamkin

1917 Persons’ lynching site advances toward National Historic Register status

DAILY MEMPHIAN - 

The Memphis Landmarks Commission endorsed an application Thursday, Dec. 22, to make the 1917 Ell Persons lynching site part of the National Register of Historic Places.

The Tennessee Historical Commission will consider the designation next month, followed by the National Park Service.

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1917 Memphis lynching site considered for National Register of Historic Places

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The site of a brutal mob attack more than a century ago in Memphis could become the first lynching site in the country listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a local historian says.

It was a case that echoed all the way to Washington and New York City.

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